You know nothing about about what you are watching; unless you know the setting. Setting plays an important role in helping us understand what is happening in the story we need background knowledge its like skipping to the third book of Harry Potter without reading the first 2 books, you miss out on references that you would have known if you read the first 2 books and this is true in these 2 short stories known as By The Waters Of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet and thank you ma’am by Langston Hughes The setting in the waters of babylon is significant because several plot points bring attention to thwhate scenery in the story. As John is going to the forbidden land he comes across this “There was the great river below, like a
